This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition – Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière – in order to “think about thinking” and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?
Itay Snir teaches educational theory and political philosophy at the Open University of Israel and Tel Aviv University. He is a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, and co-editor of Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought.
1 Introduction.- 2 Theodor W. Adorno: Minima Pedagogica - Education, Thinking and Experience of Non-identical.- 3 Hannah Arendt: Thinking as Withdrawal and Regeneration of the World.- 4 Gilles Deleuze: Thinking as Making Sense against Common Sense.- 5 Jacques Derrida: Thinking Madness in Education.- 6 Jacques Rancière: Thinking, Equality of Intelligence, and Political Subjectivity.- 7 Conclusion.